Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Professional Memberships:
Secretary of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Research Interests:
Eurovision, Australian and global migration, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, cultural studies, sport (esp. soccer), popular culture, Australian studies, gender studies.
Most Recent Research Outcomes:
"Richard White’s Inventing Australia: revisiting the invention forty years later." History Australia (2021), pp.1-12.
““It Really Makes You Feel Part of the World”: Transnational connection for Australian Eurovision audiences,” in Eurovision and Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under, eds Chris Hay and Jessica Carniel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“Nation Branding, Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy at Eurovision: Between Australia and Europe”, in Eurovisions: identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956, eds Julie Kalman, Ben Wellings, and Keshia Jacotine, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“This one loves that one: queerbaiting at the Eurovision Song Contest,” in Queerbaiting and Fandom, ed. Joseph Brennan, University of Iowa Press, 2019.
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